The thing about all this is it's a scathing indictment of common practices in insurance cases

Public service announcement; if you, like me, were sad when Archway stopped producing their seasonal iced gingerbread cookies, my sister just texted me a photo of her holding up a bag and grinning

Insert "that's not how any of this works!" screaming

The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

A very useful and timely thread from a very, very, very good defense attorney

This thread is fascinating

Back in the day, the datacenter LiveJournal was hosted in had the requisite emergency power off button in the event of fire suppression systems becoming necessary. It was placed on the wall right next to the exit door ... where it looked precisely like a button to open an automatic door.

"Huh, half the internet is timing out, lemme try a traceroute... ohhh, shit, either it's raining in Virginia or someone parked on the internet again."

I burned my arm on the air fryer basket making lunch 😭

Ugh. I've been sleeping like shit for the past week or so, and it's caught up with me enough that it's a "paradoxical stimulant reaction means as soon as the ADHD meds kick in, I can't keep my eyes open despite just having woken up from 12 hours of sleep" day

I really would like to live in a slightly less inane dystopia if I have to live in a dystopia at all, thank you very much

Breaking news: roumd

I just dropped a Frito on the kitchen floor and can't find it, so Ginny is going to have an unexpected treat in the morning

Oh thank fucking God, Clearsky has put "people blocking me" and "lists I'm on" behind a login wall

Uh-oh, I wasn't paying attention to the time and I broke my rule about getting the fuck off social media once I have been awake for 24 hours and staying the fuck off social media until I have gotten at least eight hours of sleep

Reposting to remind myself to dig into the text and specifics of the permanent injunction

The extremely rare case of a large expensive house having been arranged and decorated by people who have the radical opinion that a house should be for living in and the furnishings should be comfortable and convenient

You know it's a bad embodiment day when you're on the Chirp wheel for over five minutes with zero things going back where they belong

Yet more anecdata for the COVID/antihistamine preventative link: just ran the 1-week-after-travel RT-LAMP test, and I do not have COVID! And I was a lot less paranoid about perfect masking this time: we even ate inside a restaurant (for the first time since the summer of '21!)

Ah, fuck, this one hurts

I have some methodology nitpicks here -- there's a bit of "we went looking where we expected to find something and lo and behold, we found it" tail wagging the dog going on -- but the preprint was an interesting read and I wanna see where it goes pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

For the record, there are at least three misdirections-at-best in this week's Main Character's thread about how her being suspended for 72 hours for violating the violent rhetoric policy is the greatest outrage ever to happen:

Cat pee has been cleaned out of laptop, task I needed the laptop for has been tasked, and that was more than enough brain for the day

The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

Okay. I am better enough today after this weekend's exertions that I think I can do the thing I have not had brain for, and it starts with "cleaning the cat pee out of my laptop". I'M GONNA DO IT, BLUESKY, I SWEAR

It's a little mean to do this to Greg this year because he's recovering from shoulder surgery, but it's a long tradition to fill his November and December with wild feats of impossible logistics to get kids who rely on school breakfast/lunch fed over winter break.

This is a really shitty contract Scott rightfully refused to sign!

we need a department of kerning

Starbucks union members are striking tomorrow, folks! don't cross picket lines.

I will volunteer to frog-march Bill Clinton to jail myself to get justice for his victims and the victims of every other powerful person in that conspiracy

The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

I ALMOST MISSED EXPLODING WHALE DAY

Sarah: Where should I put the maraschino cherries? Where will you look for them? Me: ... I put maraschino cherries on the grocery list? Her: they were on there! Were you sleep-grocery-listing again? Me: I was aiming for apple butter! Her: Well, it wasn't on the list!

There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!

Okay, Australian scientists, you're just trolling us now, right? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rosie and I are currently making identical grumbling noises whenever we move in bed

Great thread on why the Nordic model of sex work is an abject failure and the only approach that has ever actually improved sex worker safety is full decriminalization

Watching more people discover this infuriating fact and getting righteously furious about it is at least good reinforcement that we are correct to be righteously furious about it

Chicago! Get your void kitten!

This is deeply misleading. The agricultural section of the bill does NOT ban hemp-derived cannabinoid products that contain less than .3% THC total. www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...

*** 11th ANNUAL BULL CITY FOODRAISER FUNDRAISING THREAD *** It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids! ➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua... ➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... (Plus other donation options in thread!)

I knew the crash would be bad but I didn't think it would be this bad. Ow :/

My contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald Day: Bobby Sands MP, who died in a hunger strike while imprisoned in the notorious Maze prison, used the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" for his protest song "Back Home In Derry": m.youtube.com/watch?v=vMu6...

bsky.app/profile/lady... we l B request

Oh, I forgot to mention! If you are going to be at a Broadway, Off-Broadway, or touring production in the next few weeks, it is the fall Red Bucket Follies, one of the main fundraisers for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwa...

Small upsides: the two pill bottles that emptied themselves all over my giant bag of drugs were at least visually distinct and easy to separate

I made the poor tactical decision of lying down before finishing my tasks of getting shit handled

Minnesota cis people, it's especially our time to stand up to do the work so our trans comrades don't need to spend further time and energy defending their right to exist!

We walked past the NYT building today and I just want y'all to know I flipped it the bird on everyone's behalf but especially my trans friends

Rosie is very irked with me and Ginny and Ruth ate all the kibble we left for them, which was about four days' worth, so there's definitely vomit hiding somewhere lol